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Apple is more than Steve Jobs: Fans
Apple fans and would-be customers seemed to agree that while Steve Jobs’ charisma and innovative genius is one-of-a-kind, the company he built will survive without him.
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On Wednesday night, after he resigned as CEO of the iconic gadget maker, Jobs was not the topic of conversation among shoppers, browsers or the blue-shirted employees at the Apple store on Manhattan’s swanky Fifth Avenue across from Central Park.
On the display computers set up around the store, people scrolled through Facebook photos, looked up bank account balances and watched videos on YouTube.
Steve Jobs: Biographical Info & Chronology
NAME: Steven Paul Jobs
AGE: 56
BORN: Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
EDUCATION: Graduated from high school in Cupertino, Calif., in 1972 and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Ore., but dropped out after one semester.
FAMILY: Wife, Laurene Powell; their three children, Reed Paul, Erin Sienna and Eve; plus daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, from relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan; biological sister, author Mona Simpson.
RESIDENCE: Palo Alto, California, U.S.
RELIGION: Buddhism
NET WORTH: $8.3 Billion (2011)
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
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NLRB Says Workers Need to Know Their Rights, Biz World Flips Out
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a new and simple rule today. It says employers must display an 11-by-17-inch poster informing workers of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, where they usually post notices to let workers know their rights.
Saying he applauded the new rule, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says:
Just as employers are required to notify their employees of their rights around health and safety, wages and discrimination on the job, this rule gives clear information to employees about their rights under this fundamental labor law so that workers are better equipped to exercise and enforce them.
Yet from the reaction of the Big Business, the notice is just a step away from the NLRB giving workers the right to drag employers into the street and beat them severely about the head and shoulders.
Keep in mind, this is a just a poster.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) calls it an “unprecedented overreach of its authority… a punitive new rule…a new low…a trap for millions of businesses.”
It’s just a poster.
Peter Schaumber, a former NLRB chairman appointed by former President George W. Bush, told Bloombe
Romney Embraces Bosses, ‘Right to Work’ for Less
Californian* Mitt Romney gave his anti-worker corporate backers a big boost when he spent yesterday in New Hampshire getting involved in the state fight surrounding “right to work” for less.
Instead of talking about what working people want to hear—how every politician is going to create jobs—he’s spending his time with partisan political attacks that have no basis in economic reality. If he was focused on the economics, he’d realize that “right to work” for less lowers wages for everyone. In fact, the average worker in a “right to work” state makes about $5,333 a year less than workers in other states ($35,500 compared with $30,167).
Romney ought to beware of associating himself with the more radical elements of the New Hampshire right wing, which has been losing race after race after it began its war on the middle class. Democratic state cand
King’s Social Justice Vision Encompasses All People
During the second panel in today’s national symposium on “Jobs, Justice and the American Dream,” panelists made it clear that now is the time for a massive effort by progressives to come together at all levels to build a movement that reclaims the moral vision that King had and to force needed social change in our nation. They agreed that Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of social justice is not limited to African Americans and poor people. It encompas Read more…
Steve Jobs’ resignation heats up social nets
As soon as the news hit late Wednesday that Steve Jobs was resigning as Apple’s CEO, social networks heated up with traffic.
Jobs announced that he is stepping down and Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, was chosen to take the helm. That was all it took to light up sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ with people posting well-wishes for Jobs and venting their worries about what will happen to Apple without Jobs at the reins.
For a while last night, #stevejobs and #CEO of Apple were trending topics on Twitter.
“The beauty of creating something bigger than yourself is that it’ll live on without you. so steve jobs resigns as ceo.
2011 ICT salaries increase on previous year: ACS
2011 Australian Computer Society Remuneration Survey
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ICT salaries across the country have experienced growth over the last year, particularly for those in the private sector, a survey by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has found.
The annual survey, which examined about 2000 ICT employees in Australia, found private sector ICT salaries grew from three per cent to 4.2 per cent in the 12 months to May 2011, while the number of respondents who reported no salary increase went from 45 per cent in 2010, to 23 per cent in 2011.
The survey also found CIO and general management roles remained the most lucrative ICT positions based on remuneration packages.
Remuneration paid to ICT professionals was recorded at four per cent, an increase on the previous year’s 3.3 per cent.
ACS president, Anthony Wong, said there were various factors affecting remuneration levels in the private sector.
“While there are a range of pressures impacting demand for ICT, skills shortages remain the fundamental driver in the Australian economy,” Wong said in a statement.
“When you look at the sectors with the biggest increase in remuneration, it appears that the banking and insurance industries have recovered well from the GFC.
“Indicators point to further recovery in the prospects of Australian ICT professionals following the 2008 global economic slowdown, and further increases in ICT salary growth can be expected to continue at a moderate pace.”
According to Wong, the National Broadband Network (NBN) as well as ongoing development of electronic systems in the health and security industries are expected to provide medium-term job opportunities hampered by uncertainty around global economic conditions.
The survey found the insurance industry had experienced the largest increase reporting an average salary growth of 5.7 per cent, closely followed by business service and electricity with 5.4 and 5.3 respectively. Bringing up